A lot of arbitration clauses can be opted out of. This was the case with most of my credit card agreements when I was reading through them. It involves sending a letter saying that you want to opt out of arbitration. The clause is usually within the mass of text and not easy to find, but it’s there.
Realistically it’s more like 100 support Israel, 100 vehemently oppose it, and 200 just play along with whatever the leader says to not get kicked out of the party.
🚨 TRADE OFFER 🚨
I get: billions of dollars worth of guns, planes, and other military equipment
You get: loads of bad press, occasional dinner with Bibi (while supplies last, no cash value, void where prohibited)
My Chinese room theory of politics: I don’t actually care whether anyone truly believes what they say. Words speak louder than thoughts and actions speak louder than words. As long as someone is useful as an implement to enacting progressive policy priorities, successful at shepherding legislation, and campaigns for the election of progressives, or can be strong-armed into doing the above three, I could not care less whether they actually believe in what they say.
“Senate Democrats are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed, because we know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors,” [Chuck Schumer] said.
For once Schumer is 100% right.
The state party officials need to expel her from the party. Even if it would only have a symbolic effect they need to make clear that this is unacceptable for anyone who calls themselves a Democrat. If moderates ask progressives to “vote blue no matter who” and then turn around to endorse collaborators then they need to get the boot.
Voters have shown they don’t punish candidates for election denialism. So there is no political cost to denying elections. The reason that doing that used to be taboo is that candidates thought appearing like a sore loser would turn off voters for future elections.
What mousetrap do you have that isn’t lethal? We have poison, the classic snapping bone crusher, the drown-o-matic, and the glue of death. Surely the Rodent Fusillader 4000 wouldn’t be out of place on that list.
Oh, and don’t forget to update your certificate stores too because some dumbass certificate authority in India decided to choose private keys that were between 2 and 8 bits long
The environmental impact of AI would be a tenth of what it is now if people just ran whatever models they want on their own local machines. We’re mortgaging the next fifty years worth of compute power and meanwhile mfs who talk to virtual girlfriends on their $2,000 gaming PC have trillions of FLOPS of compute power sitting right next to them.
Megawatts to serve hundreds of thousands of users. The reason AI data centres are so wasteful with electricity is because a lot of the usage is not out towards anything useful but just wasted on things like generating Google Search summaries.
This is a post about AI. While a computer will probably not in the near future be able to simulate a human brain fully, artificial intelligence models are getting scarily close to being able to pretend to do everything that a human can do. That’s what I was getting at. But of course, one should still not lose track of the overall point here that replacing the human experience with AI is completely missing the plot, even if it is “more efficient”.
Is that even true? That might only be in relation to other animals, not to robots. Humans do a lot of useless things like fart and laugh. Robots don’t. Even from an energy perspective, if a human takes 2,000 kilocalories to go about their day, that’s 8,400,000 joules or 2.3 kWh. A laptop battery is around 75 Wh, so that’s around 30 laptop batteries for 16 hours of activity, many of which might just be sitting down at a desk to think.
Hell, why even choose to live? Humans are so inefficient. Just stop existing.
I’m a law student in the US, so I’m actually privy to this information in the form of all the talks that they have judges and lawyers giving.
You may not assume that the US judiciary is healthy and functioning, but it is not as broken as most international observers (or chronically online Americans) think it is. In particular, if you have been observing the Department for Justice’s results recently, you’ll notice a few things:
So in short, you are partially correct and partially wrong. The judiciary of the US has shown to be remarkably resilient considering it has withstood two years of a fascist in power and in full control of the legislature.
In the US, if cops get into a phone before a warrant, even if a warrant is issued later, all evidence from the phone is suppressed as illegally obtained.
This is a bigger concern with respect to intelligence agencies who conduct mass surveillance.
Also, many arbitration clauses state that the company pays for arbitration costs as long as your claim is not frivolous. There was an attempted class-action case against Valve some time ago, and Valve pleaded that the contract required individual arbitration. So the law firm representing the customers filed tens of thousands of demands for arbitration for each individual customer, each of which surely would result in hundreds or thousands of dollars in arbitration costs for Valve…